Basketball is no longer an “American” game. It’s gone international. And that’s the best news basketball fans have gotten in a long time. Basketball was invented by Massachusetts gym teacher James Naismith in 1891. While the godfather of basketball was actually born in Canada, he was an American citizen, and basketball is considered a quintessential […]
Move over, grandpa! The NBA is a young man’s game. Here are the best and brightest young stars under the age of 25. The NBA season is roughly one quarter finished, but fans and bettors have a tendency to look to the next calendar year with a healthy dose of optimism. 2015 will be a […]
It pays to be an NBA player. Even the league’s signature scrubs have no trouble landing supermodel/pop star/actress wives and girlfriends. Male professional athletes are young, wealthy, and live charmed lives of luxury, fame, and fortune. It is precisely that kind of men who tend to attract supermodels, actresses, pop stars, and other young, beautiful […]
Staff December 17, 2014 13:51:02
The NBA has a reputation for being full of coddled babies making millions for doing nothing. And it is exactly that. The NBA is a league of excess. Even with the 2012 Collective Bargaining Agreement curbing player salaries somewhat, the league is chock full of old, injured or ineffective players still able to collect eight-figure […]
The NBA has a reputation for being full of coddled babies making millions for doing nothing. And it is exactly that. The NBA is a league of excess. Even with the 2012 Collective Bargaining Agreement curbing player salaries somewhat, the league is chock full of old, injured or ineffective players still able to collect eight-figure […]
Staff December 17, 2014 13:42:43
Cleveland is down, but not quite out. Can Lebron James bring it back from the precipice? Cleveland epitomizes the term “Rust Belt.” Perched on the shores of polluted Lake Eerie, Ohio’s largest city was once a major manufacturing a shipping hub, a key cog in the American industrial machine that spanned from Northern Minnesota to […]
Cleveland is down, but not quite out. Can Lebron James bring it back from the precipice? Cleveland epitomizes the term “Rust Belt.” Perched on the shores of polluted Lake Eerie, Ohio’s largest city was once a major manufacturing a shipping hub, a key cog in the American industrial machine that spanned from Northern Minnesota to […]
Basketball is the world’s greatest sport, and the NBA is its greatest league. But the NBA is much more than great. It’s also absolutely absurd. Basketball is the best sport on Earth. Watch a clip of Lebron James weaving through traffic to make a layup, or Stephen Curry shooting a picture-perfect three pointer, and the […]
Nich Moore December 17, 2014 13:08:18
It always pays to be careful what you say and Mr. Sheldon Adelson may well have learned that lesson after some of his comment provoked a practical Iranian response It reads, in no small part, like the plot of one of those cheap thriller novels that you only ever find in airport book kiosks and […]
Gambling professionally has its perks. You do what you love, set your own schedule, and meet a lot of interesting personalities. But it isn’t glamorous. Hollywood has given us a skewed perspective on the lifestyle of a professional gambler. As a child of the 1980s, films like Rounders, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and […]
